ammonium

See also: ammónium and Ammonium

English

Etymology

ammonia +‎ -ium

Pronunciation

• enPR: əmō'nēəm, IPA^(key): /əˈmoʊni.əm/

Noun

ammonium (usually uncountable, plural ammoniums)

1. (inorganic chemistry) The univalent NH₄⁺ cation, derived by the protonation of ammonia
2. (organic chemistry, especially in combination) Any similar cation formed by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms with alkyl or aryl radicals

Translations

univalent NH₄⁺ cation

• Catalan: amoni m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 銨／铵, 铵 (on¹)

  Mandarin: 銨／铵 (zh) (ǎn), 铵 (zh) (ǎn)

• Czech: amonium n
• French: ammonium (fr) m
• German: Ammonium (de) n
• Greek: αμμώνιο n (ammónio)
• Hindi: तिक्तातु (tiktātu)
• Hungarian: ammónium (hu)
• Ido: amonio (io)
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• Irish: amóiniam m
• Italian: ammonio (it) m
• Japanese: アンモニウム (anmoniumu)
• Korean: 암모늄 (ammonyum)
• Portuguese: amónio m (Portugal), amônio m (Brazil)
• Romanian: amoniu (ro)
• Russian: аммо́ний (ru) m (ammónij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀мо̄ниј m

  Roman: àmōnij (sh) m

• Spanish: amonio m
• Vietnamese: amoni

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.mɔ.njɔm/

Noun

ammonium m (plural ammoniums)

1. (inorganic chemistry) ammonium

Further reading

• “ammonium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.